LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. I. BOOKS (INCLUDING POSTMASTER-GENERALS' REPORTS). BISSELL, ARTHUR HARRY. Classification of Mail Matter. Letter to Postmaster-Gen- COE, E. D., and others. Second-class mail abuses. (In Wisconsin Press Association. HUBBARD, GARDINER GREENE. Our Post-Office. Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside HUEBNER, FRANCIS C. Our Postal System. [Washington, 1906.] 126-174 pp. 8°. Cover-title. "Reprinted from the Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D. C., vol. 9, 1906." [JONES, W. B.] The Story of the Post-Office, Containing a History of the World's Postal Service. Burlington, Vt.: Wells, Richardson & Co., [1889.] 156 pp. 12°. Newspaper Postage, pp. 18-19, 21. LEAVITT, JOSHUA. Cheap Postage. Remarks and statistics on the subject of cheap postage and postal reform in Great Britain and the United States. Boston: Published for the Cheap Postage Association, 1848. 72 pp. 8°. "New Arrangement of Newspaper Postage," pp. 40-46; "Pamphlet and Magazine Postage," pp. 46-48. The Free delivery of letters and papers in large towns," pp. 54-59. MILES, PLINY. Postal reform: Its Urgent Necessity and Practicability. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1855. xii, 112 pp. 8°. NEWCOMB, HARRY TURNER. The Postal Deficit; an Examination of Some of the Legislative and Administrative Aspects of a Great State Industry. Washington, W. Ballantyne & Sons, 1900. 158 pp. 12°. The author is not certain that the correction of what are regarded as second-class mail abuses would create a balance between postal revenues and expenditures, but thinks the suggestion merits investigation. NEW YORK CHEAP POSTAGE ASSOCIATION. An address of the directors of the New York Cheap Postage Association to the people of the United States, together with the names of the officers, members, and donors, and the report of the treasurer. New York: W. C. Bryant & Co., 1850. 16 pp. 12°. NEW YORK POSTAL REFORM COMMITTEE. Postal reform. Proceedings of a public meeting held in the city of New York, March 24, 1856, with the address of the Postal reform committee. New York: Published for the committee, 1856. 32 pp. 8°. "Postage on printed matter," pp. 9-10. [PATTERSON, JOHN H.] A Compendium of Domestic Postage. [Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1888. ] 32 pp. Illustrations. 12°. Second-class matter," pp. 3-6. A Compendium of Domestic and Foreign Postage and of Postal Laws and Regulations. [Chicago: Rand, McNally, & Co. 1888.] 36 pp. 12°. Captiontitle. "Second-class matter." pp. 4-8. 845 66 112 pp. Plitt, George. Report of George Plitt, Special Agent of the Post-Office Department. November, 1840. (In United States. Report of the Postmaster-General, 1840, pp. 491-530.) Contains rates of postage on newspapers in Great Britain, France, and Prussia. Newspapers and printed matter of every description to be charged by weight, and to be prepaid, pp. 528–529. ST. JOHN, EDWARD, comp. A Postal Dictionary; Being an Alphabetical Handbook of Postal Rates, Laws, and Regulations, for all Who Use the Mails. 9th ed., rev. to date of issue. New York: The Grafton Press, 1905. 16°. "Secondclass matter," pp, 50, 70-79. SHELDON, WILLIAM EVARTS. Argument of William E. Sheldon, esq., of Boston, before the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, United States Senate, Thursday, February 28, 1878, in favor of, and suggesting amendments to, the bill (S. No. 539) providing for the classification of mail matter and rates of postage thereon. [Washington: Government printing office, 1878.] 18 pp. 8°. Caption title. UNITED STATES. Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Department. Official opinions of the assistant attorneys-general for the Post-Office Department. Vol. I-II. Ed. by Francis C. Huebner. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. 2 vols. 8°. "Second-class matter.' See Digest, vol. 1, pp. 10291032; vol. 2, pp. 1046–1053. Commission to investigate the postal service. Report [and testimony]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. 3 vols. Plates. Maps. Diagrams. 8°. (Fifty-sixth Congress, second session. Senate Document No. 89.) "Report on the rates of postage," vol. 1, pp. 45-48. "Testimony: Second-class mail matter," vol. 3. The Commission unanimously recommended legislation that would exclude from second-class matter (1) all books or reprints of books, whether bound or unbound, and however they may be sold; (2) all sample copies beyond a small fixed proportion of the subscription list; (3) unsold newspapers or periodicals, publications mailed or returned by news agents to other news agents. Post-Office Department. Annual reports of the Post-Office Department [with accompanying papers]. Washington: Government Printing Office [1827-1905]. 74 vols. in 45. Plates. Maps. Plans. 8°. Contents: Second-class mail matter. 1836. Recommends rates of postage on newspapers according to size, pp. 510–511. 1840. Recommends the equalization of postage on newspapers and other printed matter, with an advance of one hundred per cent, pp. 484-488; newspapers and printed matter of every description to be charged by weight and to be prepaid. Report of George Plitt, special agent, pp. 528-529. 1846. Recommends that rates of postage on printed matter should be regulated according to size and weight and the distance to be carried, pp. 680–681. 1848. Recommends rates of postage on newspapers by weight, pp. 1250-1251. 1850. Recommends reduction in postage on pamphlets, periodicals, and other printed matter, page 409. 1851. Recommends a more uniform rate of postage on newspapers and other printed matter, page 428. 1853. Receipts of postage on newspapers and other printed matter, 1845-1851, page 13; changes of postage on newspapers and other printed matter under acts of March 3, 1851, and Aug. 30, 1852, page 13. 1854. Recommends changes of postage on newspapers and other printed matter in act of Aug. 30, 1852, pp. 12-13. 1855. Renews recommendations relative to act of Aug. 30, 1852, relating to postage on newspapers and printed matter, pp. 14-15; deficiency in the post-office partly due to rates on printed matter, page 14; rates of postage between Great Britain and the United States on pamphlets, magazines, etc., pp. 21-22. 1859. Newspaper exchanges, pp. 14-16. Discussion of the law that provides for the transportation of newspapers at a loss to the Government. "But as the Government transports nothing free of charge to the farmer, the merchant, or the mechanic, to enable them to prosecute successfully and economically their respective pursuits, why shall it do so for the journalists?" 1861. Recommends that the definition of a newspaper be amended, pp. 579–580. 1862. Recommends a great reduction in rates, and uniformity in rates on printed matter, page 31. 1869. Recommends prepayment on all printed matter, pp. 30-31. 1870. Recommends the reduction of letter postage from three to two cents; newspaper rates not too low, pp. 30-31. 1873. Prepayment of newspapers and other printed matter recommended; uniform rate and limit of weight for miscellaneous printed matter recommended, pp. xxx-xxxí. 1874. Prepayment of postage on printed matter, act of Congress, June 23, 1874, in force after July 1, 1875, page 26. 1875. Newspaper postage, pp. xxx-xxxi, 19-21. 1877. Classification of printed matter, page xxx; classification of mail matter, by A. H. Bissell, pp. 242-251. 1878. Proceedings of a conference of publishers upon the proposed bill for the classification of mail matter, pp. 51-53. 1879. Postage on newspapers and periodicals, pp. 8, 250-251; the new classification of mail matter, pp. 34-35. 1880. Postage collec ́ed on second-class matter, pp. 11, 306; reduction of postages, comparison of the pirates on newspapers and periodicals from 1860 to 1880, pp. 316–317. 1881. Postage on second-class matter, pp. 8, 354. 1882. Postage on second-class matter, pp.xx, 334-335; recommends that the postage on second-class matter ought properly to be abolished," page xxiv. 1883. Postage on second-class matter, pp. 18, 596. 1884. Postage on second-class matter, pp. 7-8, 534. 1885. Reduction of postage on second-class matter, pp. 663-666, 714. 1886. Postage on second-class matter, pp. 672–673. 1887. Report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on the second-class matter under the new postal regulations; defective method of paying postage; abuse from the statutory definition of a periodical; abuse in the mailing of sample copies, pp. 899-903. 1888. Postage or second-class matter, pp. xviii, 667-668; Third Assistant Postmaster-General renews recommendations made in last report, pp. 679–683. 1889. Recommendations of the Postmaster-General relative to the defects of law governing secondclass matter; mailing of books as second-class matter; sample copies; rate of postage on returned second-class matter, pp. 43-47; postage on second-class matter, page 820. 1890. Recommends amendment of law relative to second-class matter, in connection with sample copy; amendment urged making all books third class matter, pp. 24-27; postage on second-class matter, pp. 852-853. 1891. The simplification of postal rates, pp. 104-107; postage on second-class matter, page 922; report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on the improved method of collecting postage on second-class matter, pp. 922-924. 1892. Second-class matter abuses, pp. 68-73; postage on second-class matter, pp. 906-907. 1893. Newspapers and periodicals mailed, pp. xxvii, 470. 1894. Abuses connected, with second class matter; books falsely purporting to be periodicals; adver tising sheets and "Home organs:" the mailing of sample copies; admission of fraternal insurance publications, etc., pp. 31-37; postage on second-class matter, page 471; admission of secondclass matter under the act of Congress of July 16, 1894, page 481. 1895. Second-class matter-publishers to make such primary separation as the Postmaster-General may deem necessary, pp. 26-27, 335-396; newspapers and periodicals mailed, page 29; abuses of second-class rates, pp. 31-32; admission of publications of fraternal and other societies as secondclass matter, pp. 532-533. 1896. Post-office deficit considered in regard to second-class matter, amendments proposed by the Loud bill recommended, pp. 5-10; newspapers and periodicals mailed as second-class matter, pp. 40-41, 563; report of general superintendent of railway mail service on the separation of second-class matter by publishers, pp. 472-474. 1897. Cause of the increased deficit due to business depression, and abuse of second-class rates; history of second-class legislation, pp. 5-7; second-class mail-relations of publishers to the service, pp. 497-501; postage on second-class matter, page 691. 1898. Second-class mail matter-separation by publishers, pp. 636-643; postage on second-class matter, pp. 739-740. 1899. Abuses in second-class matter, recommends the passage of the Loud bill, or a measure of similar character, pp. 4-11; railway mail service-second-class mail matter, pp. 640-645; report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on abuses of second-class matter, pp. 740-742. 1900. Abuses in second-class matter, pp. 13-15; railway mail service second-class mail, pp. 591-597; abuses of the second class of mail matter, pp. 690-691. 1901. Abuses of second-class matter; Cost of handling; the true pubile policy; the intent of the law; the inducements for evasion; growth of second-class matter; the actual loss; no law for return copies; books as periodicals; periodicals for advertising and free circulation: some examples; the Department executes the law: interest of legitimate periodicals, pp. 12-24; report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on second class of mail matter; comparison of weight and receipts from July 1, 1890-June 30, 1901; abuses of the pound rate; the law; how the abuses exist; abuses corrected by rulings (sample-copy abuse); new second-class regulations; abuses arising under the act of July 16, 1894, pp. 772-786. 1902. Abuse of second-class privileges, efforts to correct abuses, restraining orders, proposed new rate of postage, pp. 28-29; report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General; The law of secondclass matter its abuses; the abuses corrected; injunctions issued; attitude of the press and the public; abuses still existing more or less; sample copies; bulk so-called subscriptions; house organs; premiums to subscribers; pretended newspapers and periodicals; a new postage rate recommended, pp. 567–576. 1903. Abuses, second-class of mail matter, pp. 19-20; statistics of second-class mail, pp. 454-463; report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on abuses in second class of mail matter, pp. 536-540; payment for second-class postage, pp. 660–661. 1904. Railway mail service-second-class mail, pp. 417-426; report of the Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral on second-class mail matter: Its abuses, and their reformation; multiplicity of rates and their unequal operation; difficulties of classification origin of the abuses; reforms of the abuses; incidental abuses; conclusions, pp. 500-512. 1905. Second-class mail matter, pp. 75-79; recommends a provision for special treatment of newspapers and periodicals as distinguished from ordinary printed matter; second-class mail, pp. 557-564, 634-635, 638-639; mail classification laws, pp. 639–640. The postal laws, and regulations of the United States of America. 1825, 1828, 1832, 1843, 1847, 1852, 1873, 1879, 1887, 1893, 1902. Washington, 11 vols. in 7. 8°. 1825-1902. The postal laws and regulations of the United States of America. Edition of 1902. In effect April 1, 1902. Rev. and ed. in accordance with acts of Congress approved June 2, 1900, and March 3, 1901, under the direction of Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster-General. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 772 pp. 8°. INDEX TO POSTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. Ed. of 1902. Comp. and published by R. J. Holmes. [Chicago?] R. J. Holmes [1905]. 71 pp. 8°. "Second-class matter," pp. 60–61. II. SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER: CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. [The numerals at the end of the titles are the serial numbers used in the check list of documents published by the Superintendent of Documents.] AMERICAN STATE PAPERS. Documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the first session of the First to the second session of the Twenty-second Congress, inclusive; commencing March 4, 1789, and ending March 2, 1833. Class VII. Post-Office Department. Washington: Published by Gales & Seaton, 1834. iii, 361, viii pp. F°. 1796. Revision of the Post-Office Law. Communicated to the House of Representatives on the 4th of April, 1796. 4th Congress, 1st session. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 16-17. Washington, 1834. F) Contains a report on the delay in the transportation of newspapers. 1799. Alterations Proposed to the Post-Office Laws. Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 8, 1799. 5th Congress, 3d session. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 17-21. Washington, 1834. F.) Section 20 relates to the transportation of newspapers. 1815. Reduction of Postage. Communicated to the House of Representatives by the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, January 2, 1816. 14th Congress, 1st session. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 48-49. Washington, 1834. F.) Newspaper postage, page 49. 1822. Report of the Postmaster-General of the receipts and Expenditures of the General Post-Office from the year 1816 to the year 1821, inclusive. February 28. 1822. 5 pp. 8°. 17th Congress, 1st session. House Document No. 76. 67 Same. In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 90-91. Washington, 1834. F.) Recommends an increase of postage on newspapers and the prepayment of such postage. 1828. Letter from the Postmaster-General to the Hon. R. M. Johnson, on the subject of pamphlet postage. April 3, 1828. 3 pp. 8°. 20th Congress, 1st session. Senate Document No. 162. 166 Same. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, page 183. Washington, 1834. F.) 1832. Memorial of citizens of Boston, Mass., praying for a reduction of postage on newspapers and other periodical works. February 13, 1832. Congress, 1st session. House Document No. 106. 219 6 pp. 8°. 22d Same. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 341-343. Washington, 1834. Fo.) 1832. Report from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the bill to repeal the postage on newspapers. May 19, 1832. 11 pp. 8° 22d Congress, 1st session. Senate Document No. 147. 214 Same. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 346-350. Washington, 1834. Fo.) 217 Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 1832. Postage-Newspapers, &c. Letter from the Postmaster-General upon the subject postage on newspapers, pamphlets, &c. January 13, 1832. 3 pp. 8°. 22d Congress, 1st session. House Document No. 55. Same. (In American state papers. 338-339. Washington, 1834. F°.) 1833. Report from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, to whom was referred the resolutions of the Senate of the 2d instant, directing an inquiry into the expediency of reducing and equalizing the rates of postage, and particularly of abolishing the postage on newspapers.' January 22, 1833. 3 pp. 8°. 22d Congress, 2d session. Senate Document No. 44. Same. (In American state papers. Class VII. Post-Office Department, pp. 354-355. Washington, 1834. F°.) 230 1838. Postage on newspapers and pamphlets. Letter from the Postmaster-General respecting postage received on newspapers and pamphlets for six months ending June 30, 1837. 1 page. 8°. 25th Congress, 2d session. House document No. 108. 325 1838. Letter postage. Report from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads relating to the reduction of postage upon letters and newspapers. May 18, 1838. 14 pp. 8°. 25th Congress, 2d session. House report No. 909. 336 1842. Postage To reduce, etc. Report from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. August 30, 1842. 1 page. 8°. 27th Congress, 2d session. House report No. 1101. Tables giving the present rates and proposed rates on letters and newspapers. 411 |